Not Focused Quotes

#1. Drama in our lives is the greatest indicator that we're not focused on meaningful goals. On the path to purpose you don't have time for drama.

Brendon Burchard

#2. I'm not focused on what other people think of me.

Cate Blanchett

#3. The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.

Louis Freeh

#4. Strategy is not focused on ROI, but on winning.

Paul Shannon

#5. It's true. We're really working hard to make Incline Lake a reality, but that doesn't mean that we're not focused on other projects to improve the basin - sometimes big projects.

Rex Norman

#6. In recent years, even as the court has become an increasingly political body, the Senate is not focused on preserving any perceived ideological balance when Democrat presidents have appointed people to the court.

Sam Brownback

#7. The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking at their doors this Halloween

Andrew Spano

#8. Get tuned in to the goals created from each dream and stay focused. You might miss the goals if you are not focused.

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. The Heisman attention has definitely been a little bit of a surprise. It's been out of my hands. It's something I'm not focused on. I'm focused on the season and trying to win as many games as possible.

Johnny Manziel

#10. Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.

Jason Schwartzman

#11. When you obsess about the customer, you end up defeating your competition as a byproduct. When you are just obsessed about the competition, you end up killing yourself, because you are not focused on the customer.

KR Sridhar

#12. I don't think there's anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers ... I mean Chargers.

Bill Belichick

#13. I'm not focused on radio or whether I'm going to get all the audiences ... all I wanted were great songs that were universal to any listener - Black, White, Green, Yellow; any kind a age difference.

Ledisi

#14. You need a job. You need a career. You need a focus. Otherwise, you will just pick up lots of strange psychic energy because you are not focused.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Bodybuilding is not just a sport; it's a way of life. If every aspect of your life is not focused on making the sacrifices necessary to build your best physique, you will ultimately fail and never reach your full potential.

Robert Cheeke

#16. The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow ... on how elections are won in the 21st century.

Douglas Alexander

#17. It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

James S. Coleman

#18. If you don't believe your whole life has been a path leading to this one point, you're not focused enough. Master Sergeant Gabriel Luther Wells.

Mark Henwick

#19. Obama and the Democrats are not focused on the moderates. They're focused on getting their base out, and they're trying to expand that base by forming sympathetic, empathetic alliances with the downtrodden, and there are a lot of downtrodden because Obama has made them that way via his policies.

Rush Limbaugh

#20. A mind at peace a mind centered and not focused on harming others is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Wayne W. Dyer

#21. As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role.

William P. Leahy

#22. Traditional marketing is not focused on creating new categories. Traditional marketing is focused on creating new customers. Traditional marketing involves finding out what consumers want and then giving them what they want, better and cheaper than the competition.

Al Ries

#23. And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

Nolan Ryan

#24. Being it is much different than doing it. If you find yourself unhappy with what you are doing, it might just be because you've been too focused on being, and not focused enough on doing. Time to change that.

Nick O'Kelly

#25. If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.

Jonathan Ive

#26. I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.

Balthazar Getty

#27. I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

Billy Graham

#28. I have a supermarket full of ideas and the challenge is how many ideas can I get in my cart before I'm gone. When you're doing it, you're not focused on success. It's not a matter of modesty. You're simply trying to get all the things done that you want to get done in your life.

George Lucas

#29. Think of what we could accomplish if we were not focused on murdering each other.

Cinda Williams Chima

#30. GE is falling under the same cloud of the market as a whole. Investors are not focused on the positives that are occurring like corporate profitability.

James Fisher

#31. I'd really like to have a family at some point. Not that I'm not focused on my career - of course I am. And if a great project comes my way, then of course I'll take it. But I'm not actively out seeking something specific.

Megan Fox

#32. There are billions of people on earth. They are all transmitting thoughts and impressions, most of which are not directed towards enlightenment. If you are not focused, you will pick up these energies.

Frederick Lenz

#33. I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.

Hilton Als

#34. Your body will not burn fat while your insulin level is high. It's focused on using glucose. But once all of the glucose and glycogen is used, the insulin level falls

James O. Hill

#35. I think she broke, but not in the way I
or any of us
expected. She didn't go crazy. She became more focused. More strategic.

Ronie Kendig

#36. I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to get attracted to them. I've never been in a bar and just hit on a guy and started kissing him; I've never done that in my life.

Ana De La Reguera

#37. I'm actually not a very good driver, to be honest with you. I'm a scatterbrain driver. I'm not very focused. I'm always trying to find the right music station or put on a new CD or trying to eat something.

Lauren Lee Smith

#38. She goes through this world as of nothing touches her, as if no one can reach her, as though she's focused on something bigger and better and more important that she's not going to tell you a single thing about. It charms them.

Holly Black

#39. Whatever you do, stay focused. Because any stuff is not going to last forever. Once you get a show at something, you gotta roll with it. You can't sit on your ass. You better keep working. You better stay motivated.

Juicy J

#40. Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.

Damian Woetzel

#41. Be focused on process and not outcome

Seth Klarman

#42. Woman's bodies continue to be dismembered in advertising. Over and over again just one part of the body is used to sell products, which is one of the most dehumanizing thing you can do to someone. Not only is she a thing, but just one part of that thing is focused on.

Jean Kilbourne

#43. Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.

Gary Hopkins

#44. When leaders become focused on the fruit instead of the root and worry about the outcome instead of the process of developing team members, they may survive in the short run, but they will not thrive in the long run.

Jon Gordon

#45. When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.

Viswanathan Anand

#46. In these early games you're focused on your performance. Just coming out and playing hard. There's not a lot you can do in terms of preparing and in terms of scouting.

Dom Starsia

#47. Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Deepak Chopra

#48. It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

Mike McCready

#49. Work is of utmost importance in a person's life and not only as a means of meeting one's needs at various levels of Maslow's pyramid. Believe me, I speak from experience when I say that good, focused hard work is also one of the most effective remedies for depression.

Indu Muralidharan

#50. The only advice I could give is to stay positive and focused in terms of what your goals are, and stick to them. If you can't attain those goals, maybe they're not realistic. At this level only a small percentage of players make it, so you've really got to strive to get what you want.

Filo Tiatia

#51. It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.

Dan Mangan

#52. When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not really doing it for yourself.

Luis Valdez

#53. Keep your hope in the Lord and your eyes focused on the hope of Heaven, not just on the here and now.

Rick Warren

#54. My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody; it's not red or blue.

Travis Kalanick

#55. I started in dance classes when I was, like, seven years old. And the arts in general, it kept me not only off the street, I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, so it kept my mind focused. It kept me passionate about something. So I wasn't easily distracted.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

#56. It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being

David Cameron

#57. I try to keep in mind that it's a long journey. It's not a race. It's about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that's all I really want to do ... and pay my bills.

Gina Rodriguez

#58. The culture and heritage should stay intact and be maintained as it provides the individuals with some degree of resiliency. The effects of the trauma is what should be focused on and treated. Improving the quality of life for survivors is the focus of treatment. It is not to erase the past.

Thomas Hodge

#59. In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

Alastair Campbell

#60. I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

Jennifer Connelly

#61. Life is not enjoyed by being busy over everything in general, but being passionate about one thing in particular. Always focus on that one thing; dream it and live it!

Israelmore Ayivor

#62. Too often, as a global community of humanitarians, we meet the needs of the same families, the same individuals, the same communities crisis after crisis, when we are focused on meeting crisis needs but not on building resilience.

Ertharin Cousin

#63. In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.

Steven J. Lawson

#64. It took every ounce of self-control I could muster to keep my eyes focused on my work and not on you the entire time. All I could see was the way your nose would shrivel slightly when you laughed... The longing in your eyes for a love like that of the bride and groom.

Janna Sproul

#65. When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

Orhan Pamuk

#66. We are organized by territories, whereas terrorists are organized into networks. States are very slow and terrorists are extremely fast. Intelligence sharing needs to expand beyond the regional and become global and not country-focused. We need to acquire speed and agility.

Ashraf Ghani

#67. The urge to quit is strongest just before breakthroughs occur. Those are the times when it's most important to stay focused and committed. You will encounter the urge to quit many times. Get over it. Quitting is not an option; always be prepared to give it one more day.

Matthew Barnett

#68. To wait, biblically speaking, is not to assume the worst, worry, make demands, or take control. Nor is waiting doing nothing. It is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief. To wait is to "rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him" (Psalm 37:7).

Max Lucado

#69. The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was ... good.

Ron Wood

#70. There is no "era" of simple, focused, concept-driven identity design. There is only design that grows out of understanding audiences for specific problems, and that evolves from an idea. This is an approach that does not depend on any specific time period or its technology.

Ivan Chermayeff

#71. I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

Harry Hamlin

#72. Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger.

Robin Marantz Henig

#73. The challenge is not to get caught up in the hoopla. To understand what goes into winning - stay focused, you've got to be prepared, you need an edge. If you get lost in all the other stuff you're not going to be prepared to play well.

Tom Thibodeau

#74. I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.

Taya Kyle

#75. Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.

Phillip Sweet

#76. I've learned that if I only put my mind to one thing that I can get tunnel vision. Then I may not be as open to other opportunities because I'm so focused on one thing. I think what's worked better for me personally is I have three goals every day: be nice, work hard, and make friends.

Gigi Hadid

#77. In the past, people said I wasn't focused and didn't give it the time. That's a bunch of crap. I'm not doing anything different now than I did before.

Buddy Rice

#78. Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.

Zygmunt Bauman

#79. There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

John Starks

#80. I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.

Peter Munk

#81. The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

#82. It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.

Mike Singletary

#83. For the most part I try to just stay focused not on my play but on our team.

Steve Nash

#84. The real spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.

J. Oswald Sanders

#85. Why don't I talk about Big Data? Because I am focused on intelligent answers and not speeds and feeds. It doesn't matter if it is quick if it's the wrong answer.

Michael J. Saylor

#86. Sometimes we are so focused on winning the race that we do not realize that we may possibly be in the wrong race. My

Ashwin Sanghi

#87. I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.

Grace Slick

#88. I finished touring the last record and I started recording new .I never really left the bubble, which is I think a good thing. I was just very focused. Maybe I should have taken a break or something, and not done such a long push.

Andrew Bird

#89. Do you want to be rich or not? Let's get focused on that, buddy

Kevin O'Leary

#90. I greatly admire GE, their utterly ruthlessly focused management, to get the cost out and get this integration done.' Okay, we may make a few mistakes along the way but we are not going to waste any time.' They make decisions; they are incredibly disciplined and focused.

Larry Ellison

#91. You're easily distracted, aren't you?" Ty deadpanned.
"Not really," Zane said smoothly, dragging one hand down Ty's
chest. "I'm still focused on you.

Madeleine Urban

#92. Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.

Herman Edwards

#93. In order to achieve stable success, you must be focused on God and not on success itself

Sunday Adelaja

#94. We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men.

Angelina Jolie

#95. One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.

Mitch Landrieu

#96. Every day, I walked. It was not a meditation, but survival, one foot in the front of the other, with my eyes focused down, trying to stay steady.

Terry Tempest Williams

#97. When I'm focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I'm gonna get there.

Michael Phelps

#98. Football has to work really hard to put a smile on people's face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if you're always going to sell out to the highest bidder.

Gordon Taylor

#99. At times i am so focused like i have been taken over by a remote controlled computer, although not user friendly.

Tina J. Richardson

#100. People accuse me of being arrogant all the time.I'm not arrogant , i'm focused

Russell Crowe